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Beautifully Situated amongst the 

Mountains of Southwest Virginia, in the 

Heart of a Country Unsurpassed for 

Combined Mineral and 

Agricultural Wealth, blessed with a Most 

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Abingdon, The Town of. 1 

Its Future .'. 3 

Railroads / "> 

Coal, Coke, Iron 

Abingdon, A Brief Summary of its Advantages 18 

Industries of the Town 19 

Abingdon Academy 12 

Method of Training and Treatment 13 

Academy of the Visitation 11 

Coal, Iron Ore and Pig Iron -0 

Iron Ore -1 

Pig Iron -2 

Cost of Making Iron in Virginia 23 

" " " Pennsylvania 23 

During the Summer Months 20 

Emory and Henry College 14 

Jackson Female Institute 10 

Martha Washington College 8 

A Bit of M. W. C. History. 9 

Southwest Virginia 10 

Virginia's Future 15 

Washington County.. 19 



TheTown of Abingdon, 

THE flourishing seat of justice for Washington County, Virginia, 
was incorporated by the General Assembly in the year 1778. 
The county was established by an act passed in October, 1776, and 
was the first county in any State named for " The Father of his 
Country," who had then been for several months in the field at the 
head of the Continental army, which was just fairly entering upon 
the great seven years' struggle for national independence, and the 
founding of a republican form of government based upon the sov- 
ereignty of the people, and deriving all its just powers from the 
consent of the governed — the grandest conception of human gov- 
ernment ever evolved from the mind of man, and so in conflict with 
the history of the past as to be justly styled " the War of the Revo- 
lution." 

Although established by law in October, 177G, Washington county 
did not perfect its civil and military organization until January 
28th, 1777. The county included within its original boundary lines 
parts of the present counties of Grayson, Wythe and Tazewell, and 
all of Smyth, Scott, Russell, Lee, Wise, Dickenson and Buchanan — 
almost enough territory to form a good-sized State, and containing 
within its limits more natural and diversified elements of wealth 
than exist in any other equally compact and no larger area on the 
face of the habitable globe, consisting of coals, iron ores, manganese, 
zinc, lead, gypsum, copper, salt, marbles, limestones, and springs of 
healing waters in the mineral kingdom; of vast forests of all the 
known valuable commercial woods of the temperate zone; of pure 
springs and water courses everywhere ; of a soil unsurpassed in natu- 
ral fertility and adaptation to the production of all " the kindly 
fruits of the earth " that flourish in this latitude ; and above all, 
blessed with a temperate climate and a salubrity of atmosphere 
promotive of the soundest health and greatest longevity of the 
human race, and of the highest perfection and vigor of all lower 
animal life. 

The subsequent and successive establishment of the several other 
counties named above, at different times within the last one hun- 
dred years, consequent on an increase of population and the grad- 



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2 ABINGDON, VIRGINIA, 

ual subjugation of the wilderness, has curtailed the area of Wash- 
ington county within limits of about twenty miles wide from north 
to south, and nearly fifty miles long, next to the Tennessee line on 
its southern border. Between the east and west boundaries of the 
old original county the present county occupies a very central posi- 
tion, being surrounded on three sides, east, west and north, by sev- 
eral of its younger sister counties — Grayson, Smyth, Russell and 
Scott. 

For more than a century Washington has been regarded as, in 
every respect, one of the finest counties, not only in Southwestern 
Virginia, but in the entire State. It has been especially noted for 
the intelligence, sound common sense, virtue, integrity and patriot- 
ism of its inhabitants, a large majority of whom have been, at all 
times, engaged in pastoral and agricultural pursuits. In every war 
of the country since the French and Indian, coming down through 
the Revolution ; the war with England, 1812-15 ; the Mexican war, 
and the recent war between the States, the martial spirit of the 
people has been conspicuously manifested by their alacrity to volun- 
teer as soldiers. And in all the grades of military service, from 
ofl[icers of the highest rank down to the rank and file, they have 
been the equals of the best troops drawn from any portion of the 
country, and often far in excess of numbers beyond the average 
quota or proportion to population supplied by the country at large. 

In the civil and political growth of several States besides Vir- 
ginia, and in national aftairs in both branches of the Congress of 
the United States, many natives of Washington county, especially 
of Abingdon, its ancient and present seat of justice, for more than 
a hundred years of our common history, have illustrated the genius 
and character of the sterling Scotch-Irish ancestry from which they 
sprung. Many of these men have left the impress of their minds 
and character, for all time, upon the free institutions under which 
we so happily live — institutions that have not been the work of a 
day, or of a generation ; but their germ was conceived by, and their 
living form has been gradually evolved from the strong minds of 
great thinkers — then tested experimentally by patient patriotism — 
perfected by laborious steps, then established and maintained at all 
hazards and, it is to be hoped, will be perpetuated at any cost, in 
the marvelous progress of Christian civilization on this continent. 

The population of Abingdon and the surrounding country is dis- 
tinguished, and always has been, for the high intellectuality, virtue. 



1 TS III8T0E Y ANT) A TTRA CTIONS. 3 

beauty, refinement and grace of an unusual proportion of its wo- 
men. As wives and mothers since the days of the log cabin of the 
pioneers who first settled the beauteous land on the head waters of 
the Holston, to the present day, these women have not been sur- 
passed in any other land. They have always been more than equal 
to discharge, with marked ability, the duties of every station in life 
to which they have been called, as " helpmeets " of their husbands 
from generation to generation, whether in the " piping times of 
peace " and prosperity, or when war, with its alarms, perils, priva- 
tions, vicissitudes and sacrifices overspread the land. 

ITS FUTUKE. 

But it is rather of the pi'eseut and future than of the past of 
Abingdon we would write. These allusions to the past are a safe 
guide in forecasting the future, and are therefore appropriate — per- 
haps even necessary. That the town has a great future no one can 
doubt who has studied its relations to the surrounding country and 
to the natural resources within a radius of not over fifty miles from 
it as a centre. 

As stated above, Washington count}' lies along the Tennessee 
State line some fifty miles, and Abingdon is only about eight miles 
north of that line, and nearly in the centre of the county, which is 
drained by the three prongs, the North, Middle and South Forks of 
the Holston river, which are separated from each other, the whole 
way through the county, by parallel ranges of hills and secondary 
knobby mountains, generally consisting of excellent Silurian liihe- 
stone lands, not too steep for cultivation, and of great natural fer- 
tility. All this part of Southwestern Virginia is pre-eminently a 
grass region, abounding in ever green fields and luxuriant meadows, 
sustaining the largest and finest " blooded " herds and flocks of domes- 
tic animals to be lound in the Southern States east of the Mississippi 
river, and producing more than grain enough for the consumption 
of its prosperous people and their live stock. There are thousands 
of perennial springs of the finest and purest water in all parts of 
the county, forming rills, rivulets and creeks, bordered by meadows 
and surrounded by picturesque and fertile uplands in every neigh- 
borhood. In short, the county is an ideal home for the industrious 
farmer and enterprising stockman. On its east and west sides it is 
bordered by high mountains. That on the eastern side, " Iron 
Mountain," is a prolongation into Virginia of the "Unaka," or 



4 ABINGDON, VIRGINIA, 

" Great Smoky " range, which forms the boundary betv/een East 
Tennessee and Western North Carolina, rising to an elevation of 
5,078 feet above the sea at " White Top," in sight of, and a little 
over twenty miles from Abingdon. The western boundary, sepa- 
rating it from Russell county, is the rugged " Clinch Mountain," 
with its rock-ribbed sides and serrated summit, a conspicuous feature 
in Southwestern Virginia scenery, for more than a hundred miles, 
and only ten or twelve miles distant from Abingdon, and in full 
view from any high point in the town. 

It is an interesting but established fact that long before the ad- 
vent of the white man on this continent, the Indian and the buffalo, 
guided by an instinct bordering closely upon reason, aided by the 
science of civilization, had discovered, adopted and used in their 
migratory movements great lines of least resistance in traversing 
the country, that the modern engineer has found the best on which 
to locate the track of the great railway trunk lines, east and west, 
north and south, that now bind all parts of this vast country together 
by the strongest of all communal ties, the bonds of inter-dependent 
commercial and national social intercourse. 

The first white man, so far as we can ascertain, who ever beheld, 
or ever trod the hills around Abingdon, was Daniel Boone, the scout 
of advancing civilization, who, in 1759, came across the mountains 
from Yadkin Valley, in North Carolina, with a single companion, 
and selected as a hunting camp, amongst the springs of a tributary 
of the South Fork of Holston, a spot he called " Wolf Hills," and 
the stream " Wolf Creek." The town of Abingdon crowns those 
hills, and its inhabitants quench their thirst from the springs that, 
in part, form Wolf Creek. Boone found two Indian and buffalo 
paths met here, the one from the northwest through Little Moccasin 
Gap in Clinch Mountain, the other from the west at the junction 
of the Forks of the Holston river at Kingsport. These paths from 
Abingdon led northeastwardly along the great chain of valleys in 
Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, that, for more than a century 
after the white man occupied the Atlantic Coast lands, were pro- 
tected from his intrusion by a great Blue Mountain range he did 
not dare to cross into a howling wilderness. Along these valleys 
was then the highway of the buffalo and the Indian from northeast 
to southwest. The Wolf Hills were on this highway, and at a point 
of bifurcation where one prong led off to Kentucky and the Ohio 
and Mississippi valleys, and the other following the waters toward 



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the Gulf of Mexico, through what is now Tennessee, North Georgia 

and Alabama. 

RAILROADS. 

The " Wolf Hills " of 1759 are now, after a lapse of one hundred 
and thirty years, in 1889, the site of Abingdon. The buffalo and 
Indian trail is now the line of the Norfolk and Western railroad 
and its adjunct, the Shenandoah Valley railroad, leading to the great 
marts of the North and East. To the south westward the East Ten- 
nessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad follows practically one prorg 
of the trail from Wolf Hills, and the civil engineer has located 
another great line into Kentucky and to the Ohio river that follows 
the trail that led from Wolf Hills across the Clinch Mountain at 
Little Moccasin Gap. And, enabled by his modern science, this 
wizard of the nineteenth century, with his transit and level, his ri d 
and chain, has gone back and followed, in reverse, Boone's firbt 
route across the mountains from east of the Blue Ridge, and has 
found it not only practicable, but favorable, to a direct railway to 
the sea, and work has been commenced on it from Abingdon to the 
first base of the mountains to the southeastward. 

It thus appears that Abingdon occupies what no other town does 
between Chattanooga and Lynchburg, a distance of nearly five 
hundred miles — a site where great trunk lines of railroad not only 
can, but must, cross each other at nearly right angles, with western 
connections to the Mississippi and beyond, and competing outlets to 
the coast at the same, or at distant points. In addition to these 
lines there is another of vast importance to our future : — The Ten- 
nessee Midland road, now building from Memphis this year, and 
almost certain to be extended next year from Nashville via Bean's 
Station Gap in the Cumberland range in" Tennessee to the Holston 
river, and up that and its North Fork and via Abingdon and 
Damascus to Danville and Norfolk, effecting a saving between Mem- 
phis and the port of Norfolk of more than one hundred and sixty 
miles over an existing railway connection between those cities, the 
one on the Mississippi and the other on the best harbor of our At- 
lantic coast. The lines mentioned being completed, Abingdon will 
become a great railroad centre in the most attractive portion of all 
the Southern country, with competing lines of transportation in all 
directions. 

Great as would be these advantages to our town, they are subor- 
dinate — but essential — to others of still more importance. 



6 ABINGDON, VIRGINIA, 

COAL, COKE, IRON. 

The mineral wealth all around Abingdon, that within the last ten 
years has been scientifically explored and, to a considerable degree, 
has been exploited to determine its extent, is almost incredible. 
Within thirty miles northwest of the town we enter the great South- 
western Virginia bituminous coal-fields of from eight hundred to one 
thousand square miles in extent. There are six workable seams above 
water-level in the hills and mountains lying nearly horizontally, con- 
sisting of splint, bituminous and cannel coals, superior in quality to 
any yet found on the American continent. The coke made from one 
of these seams — eight feet thick — is pronounced by experts the finest 
in the world for metalurgical purposes. Between Abingdon and 
these coal-fields are three parallel ranges of mountains — the Clinch, 
Moccasin Ridge and Copper Ridge — all carrying iron ores of the 
best qualities, manganese in large quantities, and limestones and 
marbles. To the south and east of Abingdon, and beginning only 
four miles from the town, we enter upon the most extensive iron ore, 
copper, manganese and zinc field known in the South. Its extent 
from west to east is more than one hundred miles, and from north- 
east to southwest a much greater distance. These ores are in great 
variety, many of them of the highest grade known of their class. 

Between the great ore-fields on the one hand, and the coal-fields 
on the other, the average distance is less than anywhere in America 
between such fuel and such ores. 

In the Northern States the average haul on high grade iron ores 
to the smelting furnaces is over four hundred miles, and on the fuel 
used over two hundred miles. Here, by lines of railway projected, 
or under construction, to pass Abingdon, and in conjunction with 
the Norfolk and Western lines, the average haul on these prime raw 
materials for making iron and steel will be less than one hundred 
miles, as against six hundred miles in the North, a vast profit in 
itself to be realized on this most important manufacturing business 
from the saving in transportation charges. 

The ovens for burning the coke will be near, or in the coal fields, 
and the furnaces for smelting the ores will be both along side of the 
coke-ovens on the one hand, and at or near the iron mines on the 
other. The site for the rolling-mills, to finish up the products of 
the furnaces, is properly at Abingdon, where the railway lines from 
all directions will meet, and be prepared to distribute the product 



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in all directions. Such mills would soon be surrounded by the 
shops of car works, engine works, bridge works, foundries, stove 
works, wagon and carriage works and all the diversified manipula- 
tions of iron ; and, within thirty or forty miles of the town, are 
more than one thousand millions of feet of the veiy best classes of 
merchantable lumber for manufacturing and building purposes. And 
for all such enterprises no town possesses greater advantages. It is 
more than two thousand feet above tide. It is in the midst of a broad, 
fertile valley of unsurpassed healthfulness, protected from storms, 
cyclones and hurricanes by the neighboring mountains. The purest 
water for all the needful purposes of a large city is available. Food 
supplies are pi'oduced up to the very suburbs of the town of the 
very best qualities, beef, mutton, pork, poultry, wheat, corn, pota- 
toes, turnips, cabbages, celery, asparagus, apples, pears, plums, 
peaches, berries, milk, butter, cheese; and this town is supplied, even 
now, with the luxuries of the sea and sea-coast, by rail, in the 
greatest abundance and of the best quality. 

For suburban and town residences no locality surpasses this. 
The country is undulating and rolling. High mountains are in full 
view and within two hours' carriage driving. The North and Mid- 
dle Forks of the Holston river are each about five miles distant. 
They are large, clear, beautiful streams, abounding with the most 
delicious game fish. The mountain streams are but three hours' 
drive, where speckled trout are, and always have been abundant. 
Field sports can be enjoyed in every direction. Quail are found on 
all the farms ; pheasants in the hills and secondary mountains ; 
wild turkeys, some deer and more black bear in the higher moun- 
tains. In short, in God's handiwork there is scarcely a fairer land 
under the sun. 

The town is the oldest in Virginia or in the United States west 
of the Alleghany mountains. Its people are among the most refined 
in the State, and possessing in an eminent degree the social qualities 
so long characteristic of Old Virginia. For a place no larger — its 
population is not quite three thousand — the educational facilities 
are remarkable. Martha Washington Female College, the Catholic 
Convent and the Stonewall Jackson Institute afford the highest edu- 
cation to young ladies who come here from a distance, as well as to 
our native girls, while the Abingdon Academy prepares young men 
to enter the colleges and universities of the State. Besides these, 



8 ABINGDON, VIRGINIA, 

the usual primary schools provide an ample course of study for all, 
of both races, in English branches. 

Nearly all the Christian denominations have excellent church 
edifices, large congregations and good -preachers. 

All the large cities North and South are within easy reach by 
rail in a few hours, or a day or two at most. 

In short, for the investment of money in real estate with a cer- 
tainty of great profit, or in manufactories or mining, or as a place 
of permanent residence or summer sojourn, or for the education of 
the youth of both sexes, few places can be found anywhere more 
desirable and more attractive than Abingdon, Virginia. 



MARTHA WASHINGTON COLLEGE. 

This celebrated school is situated in Abingdon, Va., and is per- 
haps the historic old town's most conspicuous adornment. The 
College is convenient to the railroad depot, and connected by paved 
walks with the churches and stores. 

It can be asserted with entire safety that no section of the Valley 
of Virginia is more healthy than Abingdon. The atmosphere is 
bracing and invigorating even in midsummer. Mineral waters in 
great variety abound in its vicinity. 

Its location in Southwestern Virginia, over 2000 feet above the 
sea. gives it great advantages, because young ladies here have all 
the benefits of the climatic influences of the mountains, and at the 
same time escape those severe, rigorous winters that prevail further 
North, and that so sorely try constitutions accustomed to a Southern 
climate. 

Of all the pupils from the South who have entered this institu- 
tion, even in mid-winter, not one has found the winter too severe 
or at all injurious to health. 

The permanent -advantage to the health of young ladies, whose 
constitutions develop under such climatic influences, is invaluable. 

The grounds are large, comprising eight acres, six of which are 
elegantly carpeted by a luxurious growth of native blue-grass, and 
beautifully set in shrubbery, in shade and fruit trees of unusual 
variety. 

These grounds are girded, and intersected by walks of the most 
tasteful and admirable construction, elevated and covered with tan 



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to secure dryness and pleasantness, the entire length of them being 
not less than a mile. 

Lawn tennis and croquet sets, rustic seats, etc., are provided ; the 
whole campus presenting a scene of picturesque beauty rarely 
equalled and never excelled, and affording the most inviting facili- 
ties for healthful diversion. 

The situation commands extensive and imposing views of grand 
mountain scenery. 

The buildings consist of the spacious mansion formerly owned 
and occupied by Col. Thomas L. Preston, and a new brick structure 
on the same grounds. These are built of the most excellent ma- 
terial, and according to convenient models. The main building 
was erected at a cost of not less than $30,000, and the new one at 
a cost of $9,000. 

The session begins on the second Thursday of September, and 
closes Wednesday before the third Thursday of June. For con- 
venience it is divided into two terms of twenty weeks each. 

For more than a quarter of a century Martha Washington Col- 
lege has been celebrated as one of the best schools for girls on the 
continent, and at no time in its history has it been better equipped, 
enjoyed a more satisfactory prosperity, or had a better prospect 
than at present. 

A BIT OF M. W. C. HISTORY. 

Martha Washington College has an exceedingly interesting his- 
tory. Several years before the war, McCabe Lodge No. 56, L 0. 0. 
F., of this place, projected a plan for the erection of a first-class 
female college. A plot of several acres of ground was purchased, 
upon which a large three story building was erected — intended as 
the main building. During a severe storm the building was so ma- 
terially injured as to preclude the possibility of safe repair, and as 
it became apparent that the Lodge could not repair and complete 
the buildings, as was contemplated in its projection, a proposition 
was considered from a committee of the Holston Conference of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in regard to the property and 
its franchises. The debris of the College was purchased by the 
trustees of the Conference, and as the ample house and grounds of 
Thos. L. Preston, Esq., (now Martha Washington College) was 
offered upon exceedingly accommodating terms, the trustees of the 
church purchased the property and inaugurated the grand school 
now in operation in this place. 



10 ABINGDON, VIRGINIA, 

The trustees on the part of the church received the transferred 
property and franchises August 27th, 1858, and purchased the 
Preston estate in 1859. The College was opened for pupils in 1860, 
under the administration of its first President, Rev. Wm. A. Harris. 
Though thus opened at the beginning of the war, the College sus- 
pended work only a part of one year, and passed through that 
period without serious injury to property or furniture and equip- 
ment. Under the successive administrations of Dr. W. A. Harris, 
Dr. B. Arbogast, Dr. R. W. Jones, Dr. Warren Dupree, Dr. E. E. 
Hoss, Dr. E. E. Wiley, and Dr. D. S. Hearon, the institution has 
held on its career of unbroken and increasing prosperity and effi- 
ciency. 

Persons wishing further information concex'ning this school (and 
parents wishing educational advantages for their daughters cannot 
find better in the South) will do well to write for late catalogue, 
addressing Rev. D. S. Hearon, D. D., 

Abingdon, Va. 



JACKSON FEMALE INSTITUTE. 

One of the schools of Abingdon bears the name which forms the 
caption of this article. It was founded in the year 1868, and is 
under the charge of a Board of Trustees, composed of some of the 
most prominent men of the town. 

While not sectarian in its instruction, it is under the charge or 
auspices of the Presbyterian church, and is therefore considered as 
pertaining to that denomination. It is both a boarding and day 
school, and is situated upon a beautiful eminence on Main street. 
The main building was erected in 1833 as a residence for John S. 
Preston, a distinguished member of that eminent family of Prestons. 
Upon his removal to the State of South Carolina it became the home 
of ex-Governor John B. Floyd, who resided there until the time of 
hiti death. A short time after the close of the war the property was 
purchased for the purposes for which it is now used. 

A commodious addition has been erected at the east end of the 
building, three stories in height, and it is contemplated during 
the present year to erect a similar addition at the west end. The 
Institute grounds occupy about two acres, with splendid old shade 
trees, and it is in every way a comfortable and pleasant place for a 
Bchool. 



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The Institute was named in honor of the famous Stonewall Jack- 
son, that grim, prayerful Presbyterian, who, with his brigade at 
Manassas, stood the shock of battle so firmly that the gallant Bee, 
when rallying his brigade broken by the fierce onset of an over- 
whelming force of the enemy, said, " Look at Jackson, standing like 
a stone- wall." 

The Institute grounds are surrounded by a massive stone-wall, 
which stands as a continual reminder of the unyielding character ot 
the Christian soldier whose name and fame are intended to be com- 
memorated by the name of this excellent institution of learning. 

Miss Kate M. Hunt has been recently elected Principal, in the 
place of Rev. J. 0. Sullivan, who has been in charge for the past 
four years, and who has resigned. 

Miss Hunt is an experienced teacher, a lady of fine literary at- 
tainments, and comes into the community with the highest testimo- 
nials to her worth and efficiency, and it is confidently believed that 
the Jackson Female Institute, in her charge, and with its increased 
facilities and more ample accommodations for pupils, will enter 
upon an era of enlarged usefulness and prosperity. 

Any persons desiring further information in regard to said school 
should address Miss Kate M. Hunt, Principal, 

or 
Judge R. M. Page, 
Secretary Board of Trustees, 

Abingdon, Va. 



ACADEMY OF THE VISITATION. 

(b. v. M.) 

Villa Maria, as the Catholic Convent is called, is a roomy brick 
building, with three acres of beautiful ornamental grounds in the 
rear, wherein the young ladies who attend school here recreate. 
Through the grounds flows a picturesque willow-bordered stream — 
always a refreshing sight in summer time. 

The Academy is under the management of The Mother Superior, 
aided by a corps of Sisters, and has accommodation for quite a large 
number of boarders. For further particulars, apply to 

The Mother Superior, 
Villa Maria, 

Abingdon, Va. 



12 ABINGDON, VIRGINIA, 

ABINGDON ACADEMY, 

Founded in 1803, 

HIGH SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND YOUNG MEN, 

Most healthfully situated in the mountains of Southwest Virginia, 
immediately on the line of the Norfolk and Western railroad, gives 
a thorough preparation for a university or business career, and pre- 
pares especially for the University of Virginia, 

To this institution, chartered by an "act of incorporation " Jan- 
uary 13th, 1803, some of the most famous men in the history of 
Virginia owe the groundwork of their education. Its alumni are 
scattered all over the United States. The school buildings are most 
beautifully situated in the midst of a large grove of chestnut, oak 
and poplar trees, on the summit of a hill, half a mile from the town 
which it overlooks. 

The grounds, consisting of eighteen acres of land, afford ample 
room for the recreation of the boys. 

From the Academy Hill a view is obtained of the surrounding 
picturesque country which cannot be surpassed, and a cool breeze is 
here obtained on the hottest summer days. 

Those attending the Academy as boarders are well fed and well 
cared for in every way, and are allowed such license as may be 
deemed advisable. 

THE FOUNDER. 

About a hundred years ago a young man hailing from the Emer- 
ald Isle, William King by name, whilst traveling through this 
country, discovered signs of salt at the place which is now known 
' as Saltville. So convinced was he of the value of his discovery 
that he staked his all in the purchase and development of the 
property. After many rebuffs and more disappointments, success 
finally crowned his efforts, for the generous yield of salt which fol- 
lowed proved to be the finest both with respect to quality and 
quantity in the United States, and consequently Mr. King was soon 
numbered amongst the wealthiest men in the country. He married 
Miss Mary Trigg, of this town, but having no issue, his valuable 
property was divided amongst a multitude of heirs. 

William King, died in 1808, at the early age of thirty-eight. 
Amongst his many generous acts was the founding of this Academy 



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in 1803 by a gift of twenty acres of land, with suitable buildings 
for a school at tbat time, and an endowment fund of $10,000. Since 
Mr. King's death the Academy has been under the control of a 
board of trustees, fourteen in number. 

METHOD OF TRAINING AND TREATMENT. 

The object aimed at in the government of the school, both inside 
and outside the class-room, is to train each pupil mentally and phy- 
sically in a scholarly and manly way. The student who intends to 
enter business immediately on leaving the Academy, is given such 
a course of training as will be most useful to hirn in the business 
walks of life ; and as to the student who intends to enter upon a 
college or university career, every care will be taken that he shall 
acquit himself with honor to the institution in which he has received 
the groundwork of his education. 

The system of teaching pursued is as thorough as will be found 
in any school in the country ; thorough, solid, honest work we 
insist upon ; and that pernicious system of prematurely forcing 
superficial knowledge on the untutored mind is never countenanced. 
Discipline is maintained in a firm and kindly manner ; and since 
what is known as the honor system — where every boy is treated as 
a gentleman till he proves himself otherwise — is in vogue here, it 
is seldom that corporal punishment has to be resorted to. 

The boys are encouraged in all manly physical exercises, it being 
our experience that a quick eye in the playing-fields is usually ac- 
companied by a clear head in the class room. 

The full course of study requires at least four years' attendance ; 
and, while we endeavor to steer the student safely through the shoals 
of Ancient and Modern Languages, Literature and History, and 
through the trials of advanced Mathematics, we are ever mindful 
that the first duty of each one is to read, write and speak his mother 
tongue fluently and correctly, and to have the elements of Arith- 
metic continually in rapid and accurate working order. 

The session, which is of nine months' duration, begins the third 
Wednesday of September, and ends the second week in June. 

Terms — Tuition, per session: Primary Course, $50 ; Intermedi- 
ate and Final, $60; Academic, $70, Boarders, $150 extra. Paya- 
ble half in advance, and half on February 1st. 

For further particulars, apply to 

Arthur P. Wilmer, Principal. 



14 ABINGDON, VIRGINIA, 

EMORY AND HENRY COLLEGE, 

(Emory, Virginia.) 

Nine miles from Abingdon, on the Norfolk and Western railroad, 
is located Emory and Henry College, so called in honor of Bishop 
Emory and Patrick Henry. In 1887 was celebrated, with great 
eclat, the semi-centennial of this famous institution. As is shown 
by the history of the college, published at the time, more than five 
thousand students, many of whom have shown conspicuous ability 
as lawyers, ministers, teachers, merchants and statesmen, have re- 
ceived their education wholly or in part at this institution. If a 
college be judged by its alumni and former students, then Emory 
and Henry deserves a place second to no college in the South. 

The number of students, though not so great as before the revival 
of higher education in the South, is on the increase, and at no time 
in her history, everything considered, has the outlook of the college' 
been so promising as now. Vigorous plans are being laid and 
pushed to increase the endowment. Never before has the scope of 
the work been so broad or the standard of scholarship so high. 
Recognizing the development of the mineral and land wealth of 
Southwest Virginia, the college has just met a long-felt need by in- 
creasing its facilities in the departments of Chemistry, Mineralogy, 
Geology and Surveying. The " William Morrow Science Hall " 
named in honor of Dr. William Morrow, of Nashville, Tennessee, 
whose Christian liberality is hereby recognized, has been fitted up 
and furnished with modern improvements and apparatus to supply 
the best advantages to students in these departments. 

The Sam. W. Small Gymnasium, named in honor of Mr. Small, 
an alumnus of the college, and a most liberal contributor, is one of 
the largest and best buildings of the kind in the country. On public 
occasions, it can be used as an assembly-room, and seats sixteen 
hundred people. 

In addition to these, two new buildings are to be added before 
the opening of the next session. One of these will contain rooms 
for the Library, now numbering twelve thousand volumes ; two 
large halls (to take the place of the old ones recently destroyed by 
fire) for the literary societies, which, for fifty years, have been the 
pride of the institution. 

The Faculty, composed of gentlemen who have had the advantages 



ITS HISTOR Y AND A TTRACTI0N8. 15 

of study at the best institutions of America and Europe, is as fol- 
lows: 

R. W. Jones, LL. D., President. 

Rev. E. E. Wiley, A. M., (Wesleyan University), D. D., Treas- 
urer and Agent. 

Rev. Edmund Longley, M. A., (Wesleyan University), Professor 
of Moral Philosophy and English. 

Rev. James A. Davis, M. A., (Emory and Henry College), Pro- 
fessor of Natural Philosophy and Botany. 

Samuel M. Barton, Ph. D., (University of Virginia), Professor 
of Mathematics. 

George W. Miles, M. A., (Emory and Henry College, graduate 
of the University of Virginia), Professor of Greek and German. 

R. W. Jones, M. A., (University of Virginia), LL. D., Professor 
of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology. 

E. B. Craighead, M. A., Central College, (Vanderbilt, Leipzig, 
Universite de France.) 

For more special information, apply to 

R. W. Jones, LL. D., President, 

Emory, Virginia. 



VIRGINIA'S FUTURE. 



In looking at the future of Virginia there is very much to en- 
courage and but little to dishearten any one who has the growth 
and prosperity of the State at heart. Commercially, Virginia has 
been content to take a very humble position among her sister States 
on the Atlantic seaboard. New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and 
other States, with far inferior natural advantages, have far out- 
stripped her in the race, and have long enjoyed their supremacy 
over her without a murmur or a struggle. But things seem now to 
be taking a turn which may bring unlocked for results. Three 
great railroad systems, one transcontinental, now find their nearest 
and best ocean termini on the coast of Virginia. The old Chesa- 
peake and Ohio, with its two arms from Clifton Forge eastward and 
westward, furnishes connections reaching to the Pacific ; the Rich- 
mond and Danville system, with its thousands of miles permeating the 
whole South and concentrating at West Point ; and the Norfolk and 
Western, with its constantly increasing business and expanding lines 



16 ABINGDON, VIRGINIA, 

pouring its mineral and other wealth into the spacious harbor of 
Norfolk, must have an important bearing upon the commercial and 
industrial interests of the country at no remote period. With the 
stream of trade between the Atlantic and Pacific pouring into and 
through Virginia, an impetus will be given to her manufactures and 
other industries which will soon make her the new Empire State of 
America. Situated midway between the North and the South, Vir- 
ginia is the natural meeting point for the varied productions of both, 
as well of those of the great West and Northwest. Here, where 
man is free from the icy blasts of the North and Northwest, and 
from the enervating heat of the South, with a genial, healthy and 
invigorating climate, we may reasonably expect to get the highest 

development of which this country is capable. 

•Y t- * * * * * 

That the South is destined to speedily become the successful rival 
of the most populous Northern States, is being recognized North as 
well as South. In an article which recently appeared in a New 
York paper the statement is made that ''the New South, with 
its vast deposits of natural wealth and its growing development, 
viust soon exceed the wildest dream ever indulged in hy the West. 
* * * It offers more inducements to the surplus popula- 
tion and surplus wealth of the world than any other area on the 
qlobe. When the hum of its wheels, the roar of its industries, and 
the maelstrom of its full developing energies break forth, the West 
and the North and the East will he drowned in the din." We might 
multiply similar extracts to any extent, but they are not required. 
It is beginning to be recognized as one of the fixed facts of the near 
future. — Extract from Lynchburg Virginian, May \^th, 1889. 



SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. 

When the annual overflow of the Nile occurs, and the canals of 
Egypt have conveyed the waters of that river in every direction, 
until the land is hidden from sight, the inhabitants of that fertile 
valley know that within a brief period after the water shall have 
receded, the growing crops will cover their fields with a mantle of 
green, and that in due time they will reap the golden grain which 
will furnish sustenance, and which will enable them to pay their 
annual taxes. The present condition of Southwest Virginia may 
be likened, in the blessings which will flow to our State from the 



ITS HIS TOR Y AND A TIE ACTIONS. 17 

development of its mineral treasures, to the river Nile when the 
first sluggish movement of its waters indicate the coming flood which 
will enrich the parched earth and cause the planted grain to in- 
crease an hundred fold. 

The wealth locked up in the hills of that magnificent portion of 
our State has attracted the attention of capitalists from other States 
and from abroad, and from the accounts which reach us it looks as 
if that section, which has long been deficient in transportation 
facilities will shortly be as well supplied with railroads as any other 
portion of the Commonwealth. 

The coal of Pocahontas and the iron of Cripple Creek have given 
us a faint idea of the flood of prosperity which will follow when the 
hills and valleys of all that region shall be made to yield the wealth 
which they are known to possess. And, as bountiful harvests fol- 
low the rising of the Nile, so will prosperous and thriving villages, 
towns, and cities in Virginia follow the development which is now 
going on in the southwestern part of the State. — Norfolk Ledger. 

In this part of the State, moreover, there are perhaps more rail- 
roads contemplated, surveyed and in actual course of construction 
than in any similar area in the United States. 

As has been more fully mentioned before in this pamphlet, one of 
these roads, part of which has been graded to within three miles of 
the town, will pass through Abingdon, at which point it will cross 
the Norfolk and Western Railroad. The results of the develop- 
ment and opening up of the surrounding rich counties on the com- 
pletion of this road will be enormous ; and the day cannot now be 
far distant when this development must take place. 



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ABINGDON 

(Pop. nearly 3,000.) 



A BRIEF SUMMARY OF ITS ADVANTAGES. 



One of the most attractive towns in the United States, with 
beautiful mountain scenery on every side. Noted for the culture 
and refinement of its people ; priding itself especially on its superior 
educational facilities. 

Easy of access, being on the main line of the Norfolk and West- 
ern Railroad, well known as being the best equipped road in the 
South, with a daily service of six mail trains. Situated 2057 feet 
above sea level, amongst the mountains of Southwest Virginia, in 
the centre of a region which cannot be surpassed for combined 
mineral and agricultural wealth. Enjoys an unusually healthy 
climate, whilst in the vicinity numerous healing mineral springs 
abound, thus making the town an ideal summer resort, especially 
since the local medical attendance is in every way ample, skillful 
and trustworthy. 

Has in its past history been the home and birthplace of many 
illustrious Virginians, having furnished the Old Dominion with 
three Governors, David Campbell, John B. Floyd and Wyndham 
Robertson, and the United States with several Senators and Con- 
gressmen. 

In the course of a few months the town will be provided with 
electric light and water works. 

Its streets are well laid off, carefully graded and macadamized, 
with brick pavements on either side. Its houses are, for the most 
part, solidly built of brick, whilst several handsome new buildings 
are in course of construction. 

Has many churches of various denominations, which are attended 
by zealous congregations and presided over by able and popular 
ministers. 

A new railroad is in course of construction to cross the Norfolk 
and Western Railroad here. 

Has telegraph communication all over the world, telephonic com- 
munication with the surrounding towns and counties. 



JTS RISTOR Y AND A TTR ACTIONS. 19 

An excellent point for profitable investment, supporting two 
banks, two hotels, two weekly papers, and numerous industries and 
substantial wholesale and retail business houses. 

INDUSTRIES OF THE TOWN. 

The numerous merchants of Abingdon enjoy a deservedly high 
reputation among their own people and among the surrounding 
counties, many of which they provide with supplies, for their hon- 
esty, promptness and businesslike habits generally. The flourishing 
condition of the two banks attests the prosperity of the majority of 
the merchants. 

Amongst the most prominent industries of the town are its lum- 
ber yards, brick yards, iron foundry, tobacco and cigar factories, 
producing excellent brands; canning factories (whose goods are 
used in many States and are already held in high esteem for their 
superior flavor and purity). In addition to these there are wagon 
factories, woolen mills, saw mills, &c., all of which bring money 
into the town. 

There is room for many new industries to be successfully started, 
since this is an excellent point from which to distribute manufac- 
tured goods. 

Land is cheap in the suburbs, and can be bought on easy terms. 
There are hundreds of gently sloping hillsides, commanding fine 
views, within a radius of one mile from the town, which would 
make most attractive sites for residences. 



WASHINGTON COUNTY 

contains 382,232 acres of land, assessed at $3,235,676, with a popu- 
lation of 25,203. Maintains 129 public schools, with an enrollment 
of 6,337 pupils. The rate of taxation is $1.20 per $100. This is 
one of the finest counties in the southwestern part of the State. It 
lies on the Tennessee border and is bounded on the northwest by 
Clinch Mountain and on the southeast by the Blue Ridge. It is 
well watered by three forks of the Holston river, which pass through 
its entire length, and with their tributaries furnish abundant power 
for mills and factories. The surface is rolling in its central parts, 
and quite rugged on its mountain borders. The soil varies from a 
rich limestone to a clay. The subsoil is very fertile and is adapted 
to all kinds of grain and is susceptible of the highest improvement. 



20 ABINGDON, VIRGINIA, 

Fine crops of tobacco, wheat, corn and all the grasses are raised, 
and the blue grass is indigenous to the soil. Cattle, horses and 
sheep in great numbers are raised for the market ; 4,498 head of 
horses, 10,189 head of cattle, 6,434 sheep and 6,188 hogs are owned 
in the county. The celebrated salt wells, producing annually 
1,000,000 bushels of salt, are located at Saltville, in this county. 
Abingdon, the principal town, has a population of 2,800, several 
excellent schools, two female colleges. Two good hotels are located 
here, also a fine courthouse, in which the county and circuit courts 
of the State and U. S. District Court hold their sessions. 

Abingdon enjoys a fine trade with the border counties of Ten- 
nessee and North Carolina, and the counties of Russell, Wise, Scott 
and Lee in Virginia. Bristol, on the county line, contains about 
4,500 inhabitants, and is the western terminus of the Norfolk and 
"Western Railroad. A branch line of eight miles runs from Glade 
Springs to Saltville — Extract from " Virginia^ 



DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS, 

Abingdon, with its delightful climate, high situation, grand 
scenery, mineral springs and superior medical attendance, makes a 
most desirable summer resort. • 

Livery is good, and drives through the picturesque valleys in the 
neighborhood can be enjoyed at any time. Many families in the 
town and vicinity take in boarders during the summer, and keep 
excellent tables at very moderate rates. 

For further particulars apply to L. T. Cosby, Esq., Abingdon, 
Va., who will be pleased to give any required information. 



COAL, IRON ORE AND PIG IRON. 

COAL. 

Prior to 1883 comparatively little coal was mined in Virginia, 
the output of 1880 being less than 50,000 tons, but during that year 
the Flat Top coal regions were opened up mainly by the Southwest 
Virginia Improvement Company, the Norfolk and Western Railroad 
having been extended to this section. In 1883 this company mined 
99,871 tons of coal, and in 1884, 283,252 tons. There are now 
several other companies developing coal mines in the same territory, 



ITS HIS TOR Y AND A TTRA CTIONS. 21 

and the prospects are good for a very important coal mining inter- 
est growing up in this section. The coal is of excellent quality 
both for steam purposes and for coke making, and as the Norfolk 
and Western Railroad Company have built at Norfolk, Va., one of 
the largest coal piers in the world for shipping this coal, there is no 
doubt that there will be a large increase in the amount of coal pro- 
duced at these mines during the next few years. This will natu- 
rally result in making Norfolk an important coal shipping port, 
and coaling station for foreign steamships. The distance from these 
mines to Norfolk is about 378 miles. For coking purposes this coal, 
as already stated, has proved very satisfactory, and Col. D. F. 
Houston, the general manager of the Crozer Steel and Iron Com- 
pany's 100-ton furnace at Roanoke, writing of it, says : " We have 
been using coke made from the Flat Top coal at Pocahontas for the 
past ten months, and find it equal to Connellsville coke, which we 
used the first two months of our blast." 

This is of great importance in the future development of South- 
west Virginia as an iron making region, as it brings the necessary 
cheap and good fuel within convenient distance of the large sup- 
plies of iron ore accessible on every side. 

It may with safety be predicted that in a few years Virginia will 
take an important rank as a coal producing State. 

The shipments of coal and coke transported over the Norfolk and 
Western Railroad since the completion of their New River Division 
to the Pocahontas Flat Top coal fields has been as follows : 

883 105,80.5 

884 272,178 

885 651,987 

886 929,6*5 

887 ^ I,3a5,745 

IRON ORE. 

In writing of the iron ore resources of Southwest Virginia, Mr. 
Andrew McCreath, in his " Mineral Wealth of Virginia," says : 

" The most important development of the brown hematite ores 
along the Norfolk and Western Railroad system, and considering 
their richness and character, one of the most important in the coun- 
try, is the great iron ore belt which is opened up by the Cripple 
Creek extension. The railroad passes for miles through rich out- 
crops of iron ore, with numerous mines now opened .and worked to 
supply the small charcoal furnaces of the region. 

" The limestone ores of this region show as high a general char- 
acter as any brown hematite ores mined in the country. The result 
of numerous analyses shows an average richness in metallic iron of 



22 ABINGDON, VIRGINIA, 

over 54 per cent, in the ore dried at 212 ° F., with about one-tenth 
of one per cent, of phosphorus. This unusually line character is 
found to be very uniform through all the numerous naines and out- 
crops examined. It is somewhat extraordinary that not only is 
there this regularity in the percentage of iron, but also that the 
phosphorus shows a great uniformity in specimens taken widely 
apart ; and in no case has it been found to exceed two-tenths of one 
per cent. The quality of the ore is such that it smelts very easily 
m the furnace, and it should require a minimum amount of both 
flux and fuel. 

" Facilities for economical mining are possessed by this region in 
a marked degree, for the limestone ores are very free from flint, and 
are generally found in a loose granular clay which is easily washed 
out ; there is abundance of water for washing purposes ; the ore de- 
posits are geographically and topographically well situated for 
mining, and the ore-bearing material is treqaently of unusual rich- 
ness. As a result of all tnese favorable circumstances, the region 
is to-day producing very cheap limestone ore, and the amount of such 
cheap limestone ore can be quickly and largely increased. It ia 
safe to say that the district can compare favorably in the cost of 
production with any other brown hematite iron ore producing re- 
gion." 

PIG IRON. 

The production of pig iron in Virginia has shown a very rapid 
increase during the last five years. The advantages possessed by 
that State for making iron are probably not surpassed by any other 
section of our country, when the cost, transportation facilities and 
nearness to consuming markets are taken into account. Since 1880 
Virginia has increased her production of pig iron from 29,934 tons 
to 157,483 tons — a rate of increase that is surprisingly large. The 
gain has been steady from year to year without any fluctuation. 
In 1880 the production was 29,934 tons; in 1881, 83,711 tons; in 
1882, 87,731 tons; in 1883, 152,907, and in 1884, 157,483 tons, 
showing an increase in 1884 even, as compared with 1883, notwith- 
standing the fact that the aggregate production of pig iron in the 
whole country in 1884 was 557,000 tons less than in 1883, owing to 
the general depression. Probably the most reliable and unbiased 
statements regarding the cost of pig iron making in Virginia are 
those of Prof. McCreath. Prof. McCreath is chemist to the State 
Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, and consequently can hardly be 
accused of being partial to Virginia; moreover, he was recommended 
for this work by many of the leading iron makers of Pennsylvania. 
After a thorough examination, he submitted the following estimates 
as to the cost of making pig iron in Virginia and in Pennsylvania : 



ITS HIS TOR Y AND A TTB ACTIONS. 23 

COST OF MAKING IRON IN VIRGINIA. 

CRIPPLE 
AT MILNES. BUCHANAN. ROANOKE. PULASKI. CHEEK. 

Ore S 4 .50 $ 4 73 » 4 7!t S 4 79 S 3 40 

Coke 5 2.5 4 40 3 Oit 3 31 3 88 

Limestone 30 60 75 60 .5(> 

Labor 1 50 2 00 2 10 2 00 2 00 

Incidentals 1 00 1 25 1 25 1 25 1 25 

Total cost per ton... SI2 55 ^13 04 $12 58 |11 95 31 1 03* 

COST OF MAKING IRON IN PENNSYLVANIA. 

MIDDLE LOWER LEHIGH PITTS- 

PENNSYLVANIA. HARRISBURG. SUSQUEHANNA. VALLEY. BURGH. 

Ore $7 75 S 7 50 « 7 25 $8 00 S 10 00 

Fuel, coal and coke 4 62 4 50 4 95 5 00 3 00 

Limestone 1 00 85 56 77 77 

Centals. } J^ _^ ^ 3 25 3 25 

Total cost per ton.. S16 62 $16 10 $16 01 $17 02 $17 02 

It is probable that tlie economies lately introduced into iron 
making, forced, as they were, upon furnace owners by the extreme 
depression of 1884, have made somewhat of a reduction from the 
foregoing figures as to the cost of iron making in Virginia. Prior 
to the severe business depression that at this writing appears to be 
passing away, a large number of companies had been organized and 
chartered to erect lurnaces in different parts of Virginia, and but 
for this depression, probably half a dozen large furnaces of an ag- 
gregate capacity of 150,000 to 200,000 tons annually would now be 
under construction in that State. These companies, having their 
charters already secured, will no doubt take advantage of the first 
decided improvement in the iron trade and commence the erection 
of their furnaces, and thus add to the steadily increasing produc- 
tion of pig iron in Virginia. 

The shipments of pig iron, iron ore and manganese transported over 
the Norfolk & Western Railroad for a series of years were as follows : 

Pig Iron, Iron Ore, Manganese, 

tons. tons. tons. 

1881 8,985 .3,659 1 S79 

1882 13,372 1,389 1 648 

1883 24,611 .51,915 125 

1»84 28,591 49,302 386 

1885 23,209 60,825 1,168 

1886 34,917 65,851 256 

1887 46,642 128,696 752 

— " The New South." 
In the article discussing the future of our town, stress has been 
laid on the commanding position of Abingdon with regard to iron 
and coal. It may here be remarked once more, however, that a 
straight line passing through Abingdon from the abundant area of 
iron ore near Damascus to the great bituminous coalfield of South- 
west Virginia is only fifty miles in length. 

Fifty miles only separating ores of iron and manganese of the 
finest quality from a coal field, which can be easily worked, 1000 
square miles in extent ; whilst timber and water-power everywhere 
abound 1 For what finer opportunities can capitalists wish ? 



J. C. GRKEN\rAv. Prpsident. J. R. MrD. Moelick, Gen'l Man'r. 

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ABINGDON, VIRGINIA. 



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the county for sale, on easy terms, concerning which we shall be very pleased to 
give any information needed by intending purchasers. 



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